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So I've been ripping my DVDs and I'm about ready to move onto my blu-rays. What I would like to know is what is a good ripper that will give me a file with video and audio quality equal to what's on the disc? I've tried a certain site to get movies but they only advertise 720p. Somebody said they have 1080p but I have yet to find one. So what is the best/ easiest to use for blu-rays be it payed or free.
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Oh cool I didn't know makemkv worked for bluray too. If I were to use handbrake on the file would it reduce the visual quality of the movie?
Thanks for the quick response.
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I think handbrake is great for reducing file size and preserving quality.
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Any transcoding to make the file smaller WILL affect quality BUT what the eye cannot see the heart won't grieve over.
Video is VERY subjective. Try handbrake with various CRF levels. Most people think x264 with CRF=18 is pretty good :-)
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2014-09-09, 16:31
(This post was last modified: 2014-09-09, 16:31 by smitbret.)
If widesapread playback compatibility is an issue then you should use <Main>, not <High> for your profile.
RF18
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Speed will depend on your CPU and how big you want the file to be (I use Fast or Medium) but high action movies with grain tend to hover near 20GB even after encoding with these settings.
Make sure that the first audio track is a 2-channel .aac stream
The 2nd can pretty much be anything, I usually just pass thru the AC3 or DTS track
.mp4 will usually give better compatibility across devices than .mkv, but if the file is bigger than 4GB then <Large File Size> must be selected or you'll get something that is completely unplayable. With RF18, virtually any BR will be much, much larger than this.
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You guys talking about handbrake when you talk about profiles right?
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Not necessarily. Also x264 commandline Encoder understands those options. Those are standardized profiles within h264.
First decide what functions / features you expect from a system. Then decide for the hardware. Don't waste your money on crap.
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So how big do bluray files range when ripping just the main movie and nothing else? I would like to get an average of all my movies so that I know what size drive to buy to start with while I save up to build a larger storage system.
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Feature-length movies without compression, they run around 30Gb. Compressed, it varies (of course), but depending on your compression settings, you can knock that down to about 6-8Gb.
On my systems, with the same compression settings, "Captain America" comes in at 5Gb, while "The Avengers" is 6.3Gb
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2014-09-19, 04:05
(This post was last modified: 2014-09-19, 04:07 by Tatts4Life.)
Thanks that helps. I'll have to mess around when I get my bluray drive and see if I notice a difference between compressed or not. There's a very good chance I'll have to get either another big hard drive or say screw it and work on a large storage system before I burn my blurays.